Besides some light CAD and gaming what else do you plan on doing with it?
Personally I would go to a 5980x for the higher IPC and overclock it with a 280mm AIO or go custom loop. You will save on the motherboard, RAM CPUs and coolers.
Unless you got into designing rather large buildings you won't see a huge difference in CAD. If your render times are over an hour then go ECC but if so you need quartos as well.
I would assume you plan on running the hard drives in raid so I would go with WD or HGST (whichever is cheaper arm).
Or you are trolling and I am wasting my time, since you recently said you were broke.
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Yea, somethings come up with the money, so I'm not to troubled about it currently. It's going to do my CAD stuff, but in all honesty I'm using it for some video work, so that's why I went with Xeons. I'm staying away from X99 for a few reasons:
- I really like having two chips, it's just something that I've had the past and that I'd like to get back to.
- I have a problem when it comes to the way I want things to look - I like the look of two chips.
- Custom loop? Na. Not my thing.
I was considering quartos, but, if I did, I'd be buying them from my work supplier, so I can't add them to PCPP. ECC, eh.
The HDDs are for RAID, so yea. Might actually do a hardware RAID this time.
With the RAID NAS drives would be a smart idea. But how long do you think your render times will be? Because of it isn't that long, then your build is way over kill.
The other thing to consider is you will end up setting your upgrade bar so high than it may be a problem the next time you replace your machine. In five years you will be still in college. Do you think you will be able to replace it then? I get your machine makes you money but will this earn itself back in 5 years?
This won't be out of pocket for me, someone else is paying for it. Honestly, I've had my current rig for almost 5 years and it's still going, my upgrade cycle is normally about 6 years anyway. I may put NAS drives in, but I like the speed as it will be for everything.
The lack of IPC and ECC a will hurt gaming but it is pretty much impossible to build a machine that can do everything.
WD Reds and HGST NAS drives are faster than blues and have better life span. Blacks, velociraptors, and of course SSDs will be the fastest.
Reds are faster than blues? Odd. My red drive is the slowest one I own.
Ok, they trade blows. But the reliabilityis really nice.
The HGST a also does very well.
http://www.storagereview.com/reviews/consumer/hdd
I'll have a look, they're not that much more expensive per drive.
You asked if you were crazy, I'd say you should question yourself before throwing money at this.
Do you really need all of this? Sure, a lot of it is nice, but maybe start slow. Get the monitors and throw one of the graphics cards in your current system and putting the rest into savings may be a good option.
If this other person who's paying will give you the money regardless it may be better suited in a savings account than invested in technology that'll depreiate at such a speed.
Yeah even keeping a bit in an account isn't a bad idea, like if your truck broke down you can easily deal with it.
Nope. For the machine only. So that's doesn't really work. I was specifically told to "build they best damn machine for under 10k".
So if it's for you who's giving you the money for it?
No it's for me; but it's related to work. I was promoted to director. Policy where I work is that you take your machine when you leave (yes I know, a "wat" moment) so the director gets a budget. We've already bought what we needed this year, and we have about 15k in reserves, so, I was told to spend some.
Edit: 15k is with the 10k allocated.
If your board has M.2 might as well go for the Samsung Pro m.2
Gotta love the government "hey we have extra money left over, save it so less is needed from the tax payer? Fuck no spend it!" I have worked for the gov as well , so I know how it is.
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I would have gone for Titan Xs but that just seemed unnecessary.
Titans are always kinda meh,really. too expensive for gaming but not much better than the performance card for productivity. What software you use? Is it CUDA or Opencl based?
can you wait for fiji based firepro?
if you have the budget for it, would it not be better putting most of those HDDs in a NAS? Then just have an ssd for software, maybe have whatever you are currently working on on it too. Then have maybe 1 or 2TB for local storage? I just think it would be safer for your data and a bit of a waste of all those sexy hard drives to just be in a normal machine.